[quico]

Yann LeCun (Chief AI @ FB) puts this article in perspective: https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10156068737942143

TLDR: The use of texture is inherent to the ImageNet dataset and not to deep learning / ConvNet. Training on less-textured versions of ImageNet drives the ConvNet to focus more on shape.

[hooloovoo_zoo]

Sure, but just because you can coerce an algorithm into doing something different does not mean the algorithm itself does not have fundamental tendencies.

[p0nce]

Yes but what the NN exchange between layers is fundamentally textures, not shape descriptions right ?